The overwhelming majority of Syrian immigrants to the U.S. from 1880 to 1960 were Christian, a minority were Jewish, whereas Muslim Syrians arrived in the United States chiefly after 1965. According to the United States 2000 Census, there were 142,897 Americans of Syrian ancestry, about 12% of the Arab population in the United States.

Timeline of United States military operations

This is a timeline of United States government military operations. The list through 1775 is based on Committee on International Relations (now known as the House Committee on Foreign Affairs). Dates show the years in which U.S. government military units participated. Items in bold are the U.S. government wars most often considered to be major conflicts by historians and the general public. Note that instances where the U.S. government gave aid alone, with no military personnel involvement, are excluded, as are Central Intelligence Agency operations.

Extraterritorial and major domestic deployments

Portions of this list are from the Congressional Research Service report RL30172.

The overwhelming majority of Syrian immigrants to the U.S. from 1880 to 1960 were Christian, a minority were Jewish, whereas Muslim Syrians arrived in the United States chiefly after 1965. According to the United States 2000 Census, there were 142,897 Americans of Syrian ancestry, about 12% of the Arab population in the United States.

Such as Wissam, a 43-year-old Syrian refugee, and his wife, Dima, who arrived in February 2016 with their three children. Wissam had a job in patient relations at an American hospital in Dubai. Then the civil war came, and Wissam got his family out of Daraa, a Syrian town near the Jordanian border....

Saudi Arabia’s fingerprints—both of its government and private-citizen donors—have been all over America’s various opponents these past 17 years of war... Most recently, Riyadh backed the Nusra Front—the al-Qaida affiliate ensconced in the ongoing Syrian civil war....

Saudi Arabia’s fingerprints—both of its government and private-citizen donors—have been all over America’s various opponents these past 17 years of war... homeland or American troops overseas. Most recently, Riyadh backed the Nusra Front—the al-Qaida affiliate ensconced in the ongoing Syrian civil war....

... Fishcetti describes the Syrian civil war in Scientific American, “Human-induced drying in many societies can push tensions over a threshold that provokes violent conflict” – a reality that if the Trump administration pretends to deny, has long been acknowledged by the Pentagon....

After all, the Saudi regime and the Blob badly wanted a Syrianwar in 2013, but the overwhelming majority of Americans across party lines didn’t want it ...What if the current US-Saudi relationship is like the Syriawar in 2013 – something the Blob wants, but something the majority of Americans don’t want and don’t need?....

A local attorney and descendant of Syrian refugees said PresidentDonald Trump’s travel ban may be legal, but is morally wrong ...Roosevelt’s decision to place JapaneseAmerican citizens in interment camps during WorldWar II, and the legal decision to uphold it ... His father served 35 combat missions on a B-17 gunner during World War II....

It is clear that there is consensus among the parties to the Syrian conflict to end or reduce the growing role of Iran in Syria... The American announcement suggests a desire for a proposal from the players in the Syrianwar, especially Turkey and Saudi Arabia ... The situation differs significantly during the Syrianwar, which broke out in 2011....